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Assessment without levels

Aims • To have a shared vision of assessment without levels • To familiarise parents on how pupil progress will be reported • To provide an opportunity for parents to discuss assessment

Assessment • Until recently, children’s progress was assessed using national curriculum levels. The government has now removed ‘level descriptors’ from the National Curriculum and schools are expected to establish their own assessment systems to suit their children and parents .

Why change assessment? • Until September 2014, levels were used in school to grade pupils from ages 5 to 14. At the age of 11, when children left primary school, they were expected to have achieved at least a Level 4 in English, Maths and Science. • The Department of Education felt that the old levelled system was imprecise and too vague. It did not give parents a true picture of pupil attainment and progress.

How will pupil progress be reported at Audley? The school has followed government guidelines and advice and we now use statements that describe pupils’ progress. These statements provide parents and teachers with information on how pupils achieve for their age related attainment. These include the following criteria: • Emerging = Working below the expected level of attainment • Expected = Working at the expected level of attainment for his/her age • Exceeding = Working above the expected level of attainment

YR Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6 30 Exceed 1 A Point System to Track Progress 29 Exceed 2 28 Exceed 3 27 Secure 1 Exceed 1 26 Exceed 2 Secure 2 25 Exceed 3 Secure 3 24 Exceed 1 Secure 1 Emerge 1 23 Exceed 2 Secure 2 Emerge 2 22 Exceed 3 Secure 3 Emerge 3 21 Exceed 1 Secure 1 Emerge 1 20 Exceed 2 Secure 2 Emerge 2 19 Exceed 3 Secure 3 Emerge 3 18 Exceed 1 Secure 1 Emerge 1 17 Exceed 2 Secure 2 Emerge 2 16 Exceed 3 Secure 3 Emerge 3 15 Exceed 1 Secure 1 Emerge 1 14 Exceed 2 Secure 2 Emerge 2 13 Exceed 3 Secure 3 Emerge 3 12 Secure 1 Emerge 1 11 Secure 2 Emerge 2 10 Secure 3 Emerge 3 9 Emerge 1 8 Emerge 2 7 Emerge 3 6 Exceed (3) 5 Secure (2) 4 Emerge (1)

A Point System to Track Progress ASSESSMENT Year Emerging Secure Exceeding YN 1 2 3 YR 4 5 6 Y1 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Y2 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Y3 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Y4 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Y5 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Y6 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

Statutory Assessment Reporting From summer 2016, there will be more challenge within the SATs tests to reflect the new curriculum at the end of the Key Stages. Children will now receive a scaled score instead of a level. Their raw score – the actual number of marks they accrue – will be translated into a scaled score; this helps to allow for differences in the difficulty of the tests from year to year so that pupils’ results can be compared accurately. You will be told your child’s raw score, scaled score and whether they have reached the national standard for that subject. The scaled score that equates to the national standard is 100.

Statutory Assessment Reporting Children will also be matched against ‘performance descriptors’ (in other words what pupils are expected to know and be able to do at the time of testing) when being assessed by their teachers in non-SATs subjects at the end of Key Stage 1 and 2 to see if they’ve achieved the expected standard.

When will pupils be assessed? Alongside continuous teacher assessments, there will still be national assessments at regular intervals: • Children will undergo a baseline test in Reception. • The Phonics Screening Check in Year 1 • The end of Key Stage test in Year 2 (KS1 SATs) • The end of Key Stage test in Year 6 (KS2 SATs)

KS1 test changes Maths: • Arithmetic test – approximately 20mins. This will mainly be focused on number and the pupils will not have any equipment to help them ie number lines, number squares etc • Paper 1 and paper 2 on reasoning EGPS: • Introduction of a new English Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling test Reading: • Two reading papers approximately 30 mins each Writing: • Writing is still teacher assessed

KS2 test changes • Arithmetic test (30mins to answer 36 questions) – based mainly on number • Paper 1 and paper 2 on reasoning, still no calculators allowed (40mins for each paper)

Sample test examples • Sample test questions are available for you to look at the end of the session. KS2 – Arithmetic Paper KS1 – English Grammar, Punctuation and Spellings

What are the expected grades for the end of each year? • Under the changes, from 2016 the government expects 85% of pupils to reach a ‘good level of attainment’ in the updated Key Stage 2 SATs. • There will be less emphasis on expected grades for each year group, but rather a focus on whether a child has acquired the expected standard for that age. The government will set the precise extent of progress required in each year group once the new Key Stage 2 tests have been set for the first time in May 2016.

What about children who are above or below the expected level? There will still be children who will not meet the expected standard and they will continue to be teacher assessed using P- scales (a way of measuring the progress of children who are working below the national curriculum standard). By assessing children more formally at Reception level (with the new Reception baseline assessment test), the government hopes the children requiring more teacher input will be identified earlier. • In the past, the brightest Year 6 children could be entered for Level 6 SATs papers for English and Maths. These tests will no longer be offered; instead, all children will take the same tests, but the papers will include a number of more difficult questions that are intended to stretch higher achieving children.

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